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4 killed in shopping centre attack in Israel
09:34 AM, 23 Mar 2022 WednesdayFour Israelis have been killed and several others wounded in an attack in the south of the country, police say...
Ukraine thwarts Russian advances; fight rages for Mariupol
08:37 AM, 23 Mar 2022 WednesdayUkrainian forces battled continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, mounting a defense so dogged that it is stoking fears Russia’s Vladimir Putin will escalate the war to new heights...
PM distributes National Film Awards on Wednesday
09:52 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayNational Film Awards-2020 will be distributed among the winners at a ceremony at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the city at 11am on Wednesday...
Qatar reduces prices of over 800 items for Ramadan
09:21 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayThe Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) of Qatar has announced a reduction of prices for hundreds of goods during Ramadan...
Prices of palm oil reduced after soyabean
08:44 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayAfter soyabean oil, the maximum retail prices of palm oil have been reduced by Tk 3 to Tk 130 per litre...
Hundreds of children detained by Myanmar military, minister says
07:55 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayHundreds of children have been detained by the Myanmar military since it seized power more than one year ago, with many held ransom by soldiers and police who are seeking to arrest their relatives, according to a minister of the country’s National Unity Government...
Female Muslim activist recounts two ‘painful’ years in India jail
06:27 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayWhen Ishrat Jahan walked out of a prison in the Indian capital last week, she was hugged by her sister and they burst into tears as relatives gathered around to welcome her back home after more than two years of imprisonment...
121 test Covid positive in 24 hrs
05:24 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayNo one died from coronavirus and 121 contracted the virus in the past 24 hours. With this, the total fatalities are 29,117 and infections rose 19,50,846. The Directorate General of Health Services said this in a press release on Tuesday. As many as 10,974 samples were collected and 10,949 ones tested in the past day...
Hypersonic missiles: Why is Russia using them in Ukraine?
04:54 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayIn the never-ending quest to find weapons that will give a country the power it needs to knock out its adversaries, a new type of weapon has emerged: ultra-fast ‘hypersonic’ missiles that can hit targets anywhere on Earth within an hour...
Tk 2,555cr project to boost capacity of local govt bodies okayed
04:29 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a Taka 2,555.25 crore big project to enhance the capacity of the urban local government bodies in their recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic alongside strengthening their preparedness in facing such situation in the future...
Influencers in Australia risk jail for money tips
03:48 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayInfluencers in Australia face up to five years in jail if they break laws on financial advice, a new information sheet warns...
Tigers seek redemption to clinch series against South Africa
02:22 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayBangladesh want to replicate the performance of their first match as they will take on the hosts South Africa for the third and final ODI in a bid to clinch the series for the first time...
Illuminating every house a great achievement: PM
01:45 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said bringing every house under electricity coverage is a great achievement of the government as she presided over the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) meeting. "It's a great achievement for us that we have been able to light every house," she said.
Illegal wealth: Court accepts charge sheet against Samrat
12:50 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayA court has accepted the charge sheet against suspended Juba League leader Ismail Chowdhury Samrat in a case filed allegedly for amassing illegal wealth. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Kayesh accepted the charge sheet and transferred the case to Dhaka Special Judge Court-6...
What precautions should be taken by women after the age of 40?
12:22 PM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayEvery woman’s nutritional needs, such as food and water, as well as her metabolism, or the body’s ability to convert food into energy, begin to change beyond the age of 40...
Zelensky rules out surrender, presses Putin for talks
11:00 AM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayUkrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said his country would be "destroyed" before it surrenders its cities to invading Russian forces, as he doubled down on a call for direct talks with Vladimir Putin as the key to ending the war...
Biden says Putin considering using chemical, biological weapons in Ukraine
10:34 AM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayUS President Joe Biden said Monday that its "clear" Russia is considering the use of chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine and warned of a "severe" Western response if it chose to do so...
Holocaust survivor killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv
09:39 AM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayA Ukrainian man who survived the Nazi Holocaust during World War Two has been killed during a Russian attack on the eastern city of Kharkiv...
Two women killed after ‘violence’ at Swedish school
08:56 AM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayTwo women in their 50s have died after being "subjected to violence" at a secondary school in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, police say...
No survivors found in China Eastern plane crash: State media
08:48 AM, 22 Mar 2022 TuesdayNo survivors have been found as the search continued Tuesday of the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed a day earlier in a forested mountainous area in China’s worst air disaster in a decade...